Anyone have an Apogee 9EJL1?

[Asmodean56]

I've been looking at motherboards quite a lot recently, and happened to stumble on this one:

http://www.chaintechusa.com/eng/pro...et478/9EJL1.asp

Anyone have any experience with it? I read one really positive review, so it seems good...it also lists DDR333 support, even though it's an 845e...does this mean that it has the correct ratios and whatnot all built in, ready for me to use without overclocking?

 

[BeAsTy]

Yea, I recently got the board, it doesn't actually let u run odd ratios.... they only let u run 1:1 or 3:4 ratio (and if your p4 is 133fsb, it'll only run the memory @ 353 max), which is locked, so you can't run 100fsb and memory 333mhz for example.. it'll only do 200mhz or 266mhz... i currently have the bus set to 120mhz which runs my ddr @ 305 right now, the program they bundle for oc'ing is very bad other than for reporting temps which are accurate readings, and the agp/pci is locked at 66/33 no matter what fsb u run at, other than when you raise it urself

 

[Asmodean56]

Is it pretty stable overall, though? I'm not really intending to overclock it, so how are all of the other aspects? My cpu is 133mhz fsb, is there a ratio that allows for something around DDR333?

 

[BeAsTy]

if u gotta 133fsb p4, it'll run the ram @ 353mhz... (no clue why) instead of 333mhz (pc2700)... so make sure ur pc2700 can take the extra 20mhz... else... get pc3000ram (366mhz)